Mark Sullivan returns!

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"If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982

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11 October 2017, 04:29

Bud Meadows

Andrew you're a provocateur!

11 October 2017, 05:12

AnotherAZWriter

Boredom is a terrible thing...

11 October 2017, 11:49

fairgame

This delightful young man asked if I would set up a Mark Sullivan pose for him and when he grows up and looks at this photo maybe the likes of us and double rifles and vast plains blackened with buffalo will be a thing of the past.

11 October 2017, 18:37

Ngruma

Andrew, your words are, unfortunately, too prophetic. My love for African Hunting, the current status of education, constant barage of negative social media stories, and the infatuation of having a virtual life on a mobile device has led us to the twilight of individual accomplishment. Your photo and pose will serve as a reminder of a past lifestyle which has faded into the anals of history. Well Done!

12 October 2017, 02:26

Heym 450/400

It's good to see a young man with a proper roll model like Mr. Sullivan.

12 October 2017, 05:58

REMN JR

The young man in the photo is my 8 year old, Benjamin, who joined me and my wife for our spectacular two week hunt with Andrew & Patsy at Royal Kafue immediately prior to Darin's trip. I think Mr. Baldry's posting of this photo was a subtle reminder that I need to go ahead and post my hunt report!

I took wonderful buffalo, roan, sable and waterbuck on the hunt, but the highlight of the trip was Benjamin's killing his first two African animals (a puku and a reedbuck), albeit not with Andrew's pictured .500 double. As soon as things settle down at the office, I will complete my write-up which will include some very silly pictures of Andrew.

12 October 2017, 07:00

DTala

That gentlemen, is a PROPER picture. Congrats on a fine looking young hunter.

12 October 2017, 10:09

surefire7

Wish I had started MY African hunting at that age.

Lucky boy!

A son to be proud of sir.

12 October 2017, 10:46

Cougarz

quote:
Originally posted by REMN JR:
The young man in the photo is my 8 year old, Benjamin, who joined me and my wife for our spectacular two week hunt with Andrew & Patsy at Royal Kafue immediately prior to Darin's trip. I think Mr. Baldry's posting of this photo was a subtle reminder that I need to go ahead and post my hunt report!

I took wonderful buffalo, roan, sable and waterbuck on the hunt, but the highlight of the trip was Benjamin's killing his first two African animals (a puku and a reedbuck), albeit not with Andrew's pictured .500 double. As soon as things settle down at the office, I will complete my write-up which will include some very silly pictures of Andrew.

. Very much looking forward to your report and photos!

Andrew; good on you for doing this, I'll bet it made his day.

12 October 2017, 11:34

fairgame

quote:
Originally posted by Cougarz:
quote:
Originally posted by REMN JR:
The young man in the photo is my 8 year old, Benjamin, who joined me and my wife for our spectacular two week hunt with Andrew & Patsy at Royal Kafue immediately prior to Darin's trip. I think Mr. Baldry's posting of this photo was a subtle reminder that I need to go ahead and post my hunt report!

I took wonderful buffalo, roan, sable and waterbuck on the hunt, but the highlight of the trip was Benjamin's killing his first two African animals (a puku and a reedbuck), albeit not with Andrew's pictured .500 double. As soon as things settle down at the office, I will complete my write-up which will include some very silly pictures of Andrew.
. Very much looking forward to your report and photos!

Andrew; good on you for doing this, I'll bet it made his day.

Indeed it did. I taught him to drive a 'stick shift' and from then on he took over the driver's seat.

12 October 2017, 12:53

Cougarz

Great photos!

12 October 2017, 14:35

ozhunter

Top grade guide/person

12 October 2017, 15:16

ledvm

Fine young man for sure!

Hear hear to the fine old days of Africa. May God find a way to preserve them.

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12 October 2017, 15:52

Saeed

quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
Fine young man for sure!

Hear hear to the fine old days of Africa. May God find a way to preserve them.

Very true!

And I bet he has more brains at 10 than Mark Sullivan ever had!

12 October 2017, 18:56

Charlie64

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Andrew, A "stick shift"! Really ! It is and remains a 'manual' old boy. Even if you do spend most of your time in the bush please do not let standards and language slip! Otherwise, congrats on a great photo and well done on teaching the lad to drive and about the good life!

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12 October 2017, 20:03

fairgame

quote:
Originally posted by Charlie64:
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Andrew, A "stick shift"! Really ! It is and remains a 'manual' old boy. Even if you do spend most of your time in the bush please do not let standards and language slip! Otherwise, congrats on a great photo and well done on teaching the lad to drive and about the good life!

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Stick shift is the American term.

13 October 2017, 08:18

ledvm

Either a “standard transmission” or a “manual transmission” is more traditional American than “stick shift.” “Stick shift” is a rather modern term for a “manual transmission.”

We new them as kids as a “standard.”

13 October 2017, 08:37

Heeler75

First: very good picture.
Second: '4 on the floor' or '3 on the tree' was common for me growing up.

13 October 2017, 09:12

deadibob

quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
Either a “standard transmission” or a “manual transmission” is more traditional American than “stick shift.” “Stick shift” is a rather modern term for a “manual transmission.”

We new them as kids as a “standard.”

You Texans never get anything right

13 October 2017, 21:01

MacD37

quote:
Originally posted by deadibob:
quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
Either a “standard transmission” or a “manual transmission” is more traditional American than “stick shift.” “Stick shift” is a rather modern term for a “manual transmission.”

We new them as kids as a “standard.”

You Texans never get anything right

Only Texans who are too young to know that "STICK SHIFT" was in common use from the 1930s to way up into the 1950s in Texas!

The term "STANDARD" was rarely used except for big trucks till today. Today a standard transmission is rare and I doubt more than ten percent of the public, under the age of 30 today can even drive a car/truck with a "STICK SHIFT"!

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14 October 2017, 02:23

Fjold

Great photos, I envy your son as he already has the memories that I had to wait until I was 50 years old to acquire.

When I learned to drive, we never said "standard transmission, manual, or stick shift. We just called it a truck because they all had manual transmissions.

I know that there were trucks with automatic transmissions but I never saw one until I was about 12 years old and I had already been driving for a couple of years by then in a 1950 Ford with a flathead and a 4 speed that had to be double clutched when shifting. From there I went to the 5 ton hay trucks with 4 speeds and split rear ends.

Frank

"I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money."
- Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953

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14 October 2017, 10:21

georgeld

Up until about 1949 or so there just about wasn't any automatic trans missions. Buick and Olds, had "semi auto' pos setup that was a combo like workings.

From a hay truck I got into a Mack mixer with 5 & 4, making 20 fwd and 4 reverse speeds. There's a whole bunch of varieties of "truck" transmissions all within the trans itself. Big rigs got away from the two speed differentials.
Even though they worked much the same way.

IF anyone wants to know more, say so and I'll get into it deeper. I drove OTR ten years giving it up Dec '75. Long before many of you were born.

George

14 October 2017, 11:43

Cougarz

quote:
Originally posted by georgeld:

From a hay truck I got into a Mack mixer with 5 & 4, making 20 fwd and 4 reverse speeds. There's a whole bunch of varieties of "truck" transmissions all within the trans itself. Big rigs got away from the two speed differentials.
Even though they worked much the same way.

George

You mean a "Brownie".

14 October 2017, 17:30

ledvm

quote:
When I learned to drive, ~~we never said "standard transmission, manual, or stick shift. We just called it a truck because~~ they all had manual transmissions.

I know that there were trucks with automatic transmissions but I never saw one until I was about 12 years old

The above holds true for me as well.

18 October 2017, 19:43

Pondoro

How many under 50 can double clutch a non syncromesh gearbox today..?

Try driving ie a WW2 GMC truck without mastering that..or a Diamond truck...we had those in our army up to the eighties...Marshall help for sure..

19 October 2017, 19:19

nopride2

They were called stick shifts here in the northwest. Match engine rpm with road speed and forget the clutch.

Dave

20 October 2017, 10:13

georgeld

Cougar: Yep, but not many here would know that term.

Most gears I ever ran was an Allison automatic with 36 fwd's in a 185ton Euclid dump. AND that ain't the big un yet by far.

No idea what the big 'dumps' have for gears. I do know the tires are the biggest made. About 5' wide tread and 14'6" tall. Duals on both ends.

Kids off to a great start both driving and hunting. Hope he can continue for at least the next 85 years.
George

28 November 2017, 09:03

D R Hunter

God I LOVE this photo.

The anxiousness of the boy to GET GOING!

His back WAY off the "back rest" of the seat,

His chest just about to hit the steering wheel...

The wonder of being a boy...

28 November 2017, 09:13

D R Hunter

And I'm sure Andrew was quoting his driving student when he used the term, "stick shift",
a popular term in my youth, (born in '60) in New York City, and more often then not short-
ened to, "Stick"!
"Can you drive Stick ?"
"Yeh, my fathuh tawt me."